Mac,

If you can't get it to work, how will mere mortals stand a chance?!

I take it Acrobat isn't creating an error log? And that you have tried
removing items from the page and then trying to print it?

Mike

Hi Mac,

Maybe this Microsoft article will help.
How to configure Acrobat Distiller to work with Publisher 2007 and with
Publisher 2003
http://support.microsoft.com/kb/826360/en-us

I'm trying to print PS out of Publisher (2003) but it shows progress bar and
finishes but never asks for a filename .IfI select the "to file" check box in
the first printer dialog box, it will give me a chance to provide a name, but no
file is created.

I also get a similar "no file created".result when saving as postscript. (Pub
saus it created the PS file...but it ain't there and nothing in the spool
folder)

I've rebooted. And run other files thru the same PPD (my imagesetter).

arghhhh!

Acrobat doesn't work either.

Mac Townsend
Adcom Graphics, Fairfield, C A
www.adcomgraphics.com

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On 3/22/07 5:12 PM, in article uLJK#$NbHHA.4808@TK2MSFTNGP04.phx.gbl, "Mac
Townsend" <mactake@thisoutadcomgraphics.com> wrote:

Want me to take a crack at it?

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Among other things, it says:

Note You cannot print Composite CMYK or Separations directly to the Adobe PDF printer driver. You have to print to a PostScript file, and you must open that file in Adobe Acrobat Distiller. This is a problem with Adobe Acrobat Distiller versions 4.0 and later, version 3.0 works correctly, as do non-Adobe PDF distilling programs.

And I can't use RGB output int his case...thefileiscmyk andIdon'tliketheropundtippingeffect6s.

(darnMSkeyboard spacebar isbroken)

I

Mac Townsend
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It was Publisher itself. It was broken. "Detect and repair" on the help menu (plus rummaging around for the Office CD) took care of it.

Acrobat "button" was fixed in the same process. But It still only makes an RGB PDF, and I don't like what it does to round trip the cmyk and greyscale images int he pub file.

certainly hadmethinkingunkindthoughts! (espaboutthis blamed keyboard)

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Adcom Graphics, Fairfield, C A
www.adcomgraphics.com

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Normally I would too (I let the Harlequin handle it). But I kept getting RGB black text (fixable, yes) and RGB "Grey" pics I could not fix or change to real greyscale (because they were in stripes or because Pshop issues it's "unsupported color space" message -- yes, using Pshop 9.02 where this is supposed to be fixed but is not), as well as other gremlins.

So I edited the pics to "my" cmyk and to greyscale and relinked them. At this point rgb output is a mess (strong blue color cast). Even then, Pub still squirted the black text out as screened via separations but fine as cmyk composite and Harlequin handled that OK.

Mac Townsend
Adcom Graphics, Fairfield, C A
www.adcomgraphics.com

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Hmmm...I'll take a look...

But my revenues are so low that I can't afford to upgrade the plugins I already have.

.. $300+ (300 euros) is simply out of the question. Can't happen.<sigh>

Mac Townsend
Adcom Graphics, Fairfield, C A
www.adcomgraphics.com

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